Featuring the Karma Refugees

Rude Boy, Punk, The Clash

Note the line: “Give the wrong time/ Stop a traffic line./ The future dream is a shopping scheme.”

The Sex Pistols, “Holiday in the Sun.”

The connection between punk and reggae is implicit in this line: “I don’t want a holiday in the sun./ I want to go to the new Belsen.” They recognized that Jamaica was a holiday destination for rich tourists but a concentration camp for its residents.

The Clash, “London Calling.”

Full Album, The Clash, London Calling

8. A Theory of Punk

Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces on a Cigarette: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century. Excepts from Marcus’ book show the connection between punk and historical radical resisters. It is a fascinating reading of punk aesthetics and politics.